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> I'm not sure what you're smoking

There’s really no need to make it personal.

Also, 2TB for 160 in 2023 doesn’t sound like a great deal.

I bought a number of them for $200 each last year, so compared to that and considering these are still among top of the line as SSDs go: Yes, I think they are great deals. $40 might not sound like much, but it is in quantities.

The price could get even lower and that would make for an even greater deal too, of course.

And if anyone thinks it's just the Samsung 980 PRO, other brands with products at a similar quality tier are priced likewise: The 2TB Crucial P5 Plus for $132 USD[1][2] and the 2TB Western Digital SN850X for $160[3].

[1]: https://www.newegg.com/Crucial-2TB-P5-Plus/p/20-156-281

[2]: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B098WKQRDL/

[3]: https://www.newegg.com/western-digital-2tb-black-sn850x-nvme...

It’s not a bad deal, I just meant that it’s not so good that you need to ask someone what they are smoking when they are hoping for prices to drop.

How it does not?

A few years ago Ive been purchasing 256GB for 40? or so USD

The real magic is found in Apple charging 690 EUR for an upgrade to 2TB from 512GB on a MacBook Pro (0.43/gb), or 2760 EUR for 8TB (0.37/gb). Considering the 2TB 980 pro for $160 USD, (0.08/gb), it always truly pains me to pay the Apple tax.

Any day now there will be a resurgence of that beyond-parody cryptocurrency based on the idea of burning through as many SSDs as possible. Proof-of-Electronics-Junk is sound money!

(I think it’s Chia but can’t be bothered to actually google this stuff anymore, it’s depressing.)

That specific model and size had reliability issues (excessive wear) which might contribute to its low price.

As a consumer, how would I learn that? For any arbitrary storage (not memory) that I am considering?

Not easily; you can look at what big buyers (cloud providers, system integrators) do, but they can get blindsided too (like with those Samsung units).

Don't buy SMR hard drives.

Thank you, I had to look up the term. The markets are so insidious these days.

This one failed on me last week. Albeit in a "read only state" so I could recover my data at least.

Since I’m building a solo staking machine for my Ethereum, I’m in the market for a 2 TB ssd, since that is what most guides say to get. Why would I pick the $160 Samsung when I see ones from other vendors for almost half the price, $59-69 on Amazon? Is there really a difference?

Ironically, Samsung's recent SSD's were found to have some pretty severe problems with reliability.

From memory, there's a firmware fix for it though.

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